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Parish Newsletters

14th Sunday the Year (C)

6 lipca 2025

THOUGHTS FOR THIS WEEKEND

From Praying Each Day by Brother Nicholas Hutchinson.
In 1980, Archbishop Oscar Romero was shot dead as he was celebrating Mass in a hospital chapel.
He was killed because he complained about the treatment of the poor by the government and the army. On this day, 8th July 1979, nine months before he was killed he talked about the witness of Christians, and he even used the phrase “If they kill your Bishop”.

Corpus Christi & SS Peter & Paul Year (C)

21 czerwca 2025

Notice:

There will be no on-line Sunday Mass this weekend.
You can access an on-line live Mass from the National Shrine, Walsingham at 12 noon
on www.facebook/WalsinghamBlog or their YouTube channel www.youtube.com/
WalsinghamCatholicTV.
Or you can access an on-line Mass from St Vincent’s, Over Hulton. On-Line Live Streaming of
Mass can be accessed via their website: http://stvincentbolton.org/

Trinity Sunday Year (C)

14 czerwca 2025

THOUGHTS FOR THIS WEEKEND

Words from the address given by Pope John Paul II at a Youth Rally In Ninian Park, Cardiff, June 2nd 1982.

“Dear young people, dear brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ, as my visit to Britain draws to an end, I am happy that this last meeting is with you - the youth of England and Wales, you who are the hope of tomorrow.

7th Sunday of Easter Year (C)

31 maja 2025

THOUGHTS FOR THIS WEEK

From Wednesday 2nd June 1982, a Mass celebrated in Cardiff, Wales during which Pope John Paul II preached and administered First Holy Communion to a group of children. “Today the Bishop of Rome greets the people of Wales, for the first time in their own beautiful land. It is a great joy for me to be with you here in Cardiff and thank God for the privilege of celebrating the Eucharist with you, uniting with you in giving glory and praise to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.

The Parish of Haigh, Aspull & Blackrod

Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception was founded in the mid 1850's and is part of the R.C. Diocese of Salford. The Church was blessed and opened in 1858, the year of the apparitions of Our Lady at Lourdes. The Church was re-ordered in the 1990's and several new stained-glass windows were installed, some made in Blackrod, and are an interesting feature of the Church.

Holy Family Parish, New Springs, was funded from Our Lady's in 1898 and in 2009 clebrated the Golden Jubilee of its Church. The community of Blackrod, Bolton, had a chapel-of-ease from 1960 to 2009 when St. Andrews Church Hall was closed.

All three areas - Haigh & Aspull, Blackrod and New Springs are now served from Our Lady's.

Rev Kevin Foulkes


48 Haigh Road
Aspull
Wigan WN2 1YA

TEL: 01942 516732

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Sacrament of Reconciliation

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A Parish History    ~   1858-2018

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Mr Livesey & Mr West have worked with local parishioners to produce a book about the history of our parish and school, they have kindly allowed us to reproduce an electronic version of their book, available on the Parish Page, CLICK HERE to read it.

If you would like to purchase a hard copy of the book CLICK HERE

Forward... 

 

It is a privilege and honour to write the forward to the Parish History of Our Lady’s Parish, on its 160th Anniversary.

 

It has also been a privilege and honour, and a pleasure, to serve as Our Lady’s Parish Priest since 1997 – following in the footsteps of my twenty-six predecessors.

 

Saint Peter writes ‘He is the living stone, rejected by men but chosen by God and precious to him; set yourselves close to him so that you too, the holy priesthood that offers the spiritual sacrifices which Jesus Christ has made acceptable to God, may be living stones making a spiritual house.’ (Peter 2:3-5)

 

We are the living stones of this Christian community – commissioned as ‘missionary disciples’ to be Christ’s ‘ambassadors’ (St. Paul Cor. 5:20) in loving witness, worship and service to our community.

 

There have been many changes over these 160 years – in the Church, Society, Education and the design of Our Lady’s Church. The priests and people of Our Lady’s Parish have experienced many joyful family and Parish celebrations but also wars, peace, poverty and economic depressions, through twelve Pontificates and six Reigns – and we too are facing a challenging time for the Catholic Church. Blessed John Henry, Cardinal Newman wrote that ‘To live is to change and to be perfect is to have changed often’.

 

And so, building on and celebrating our heritage – the stones of Our Lady’s Church, and the ‘living stones’ of our dedicated, faithful and often courageous priests, parishioners and teachers in our Parish School we can face the future with confidence. We do so knowing that Jesus, Our Risen Lord, has promised to be with his Church forever. (Matthew 28:20)

 

I commend this publication to be read and enjoyed by everyone.

 

Many thanks to Phil Livesey and Neil West for their initiative to begin and to bring this book to completion and to all who have collaborated with them, with their own very interesting and often amusing memories! God bless you all.

 

Fr Kevin C. Foulkes

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